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Jean Cumming
Editor-in-Chief
THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
Constantine Ragas, of Fasken LLP, recently reminded me of Plato's "Allegory
of the Cave," which bears reference to the articles in this issue that consider the
future. A recap of the Allegory, by Michael John M. Tamayao:
"One of the most powerful and influential passages ever written in Western
philosophy is Plato's Allegory of the Cave. It ingeniously pictures the metaphys-
ical and epistemological situation of [humans] in a charmingly metaphorical
way. As a metaphysical account, the allegory of the cave is a symbolic depiction
of how [humans are] trapped in his everyday illusionary material existence, and
how [they] can free [themselves] from this trap through the philosophical dis-
positions of deep personal and social awareness and constant self-examination.
As an epistemological account, it tries to establish the importance of Ideas,
which we apprehend only through reason, over mere opinions, which are de-
rived from our fleeting experience of the physical world."
As applied to the Canadian legal scene, can we really perceive what is going
on, and going wrong, in the system if we are looking at shadows not directly
experiencing it? Clients live and work outside 'the cave.' For their sakes, let's stop
shadow-boxing and take a good hard look at reality.
EDITORIAL
fortuna favet fortibus
SEPTEMBER
2019
VOLUME 20 NO. 9
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jean Cumming
SENIOR EDITOR
Elizabeth Raymer
ART DIRECTOR
Brianna Freitag
COVER PHOTO
Jackie Brown
PRESIDENT
Tim Duce
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Paul Burton
CONSULTANT, STRATEGY
AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Ivan Ivanovitch
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Steffanie Munroe
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Joanne Richardson
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